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On German Problems
He was referring to the U.S. tot-
al strength in missiles of different
ranges. aircraft, advanced bases.
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finally agreed on is part of a plan
to keep superiority through 1962,
which he said to the current range
of national intelligence estimates
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Comics ....
Editorials ..
Farm News
Sports ....
Town Tuples
1,985 Coeds
Enrollment at TWU reached
1.M5 at the end of the formal re-
gistration period Tuesday but uni-
he said,
striined
— TEMPERATURIS
(Experiment Staften Report)
Migh Tyesday
Lew mhis morning ......,
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tow yeer as*
nor is it likely to be the last.
Such tests occur often in a
nation-wide agency charged
with defending and protecting
the country’»> most precious
resource — the American peo-
ple — from enemy attack.
The OCDM office in Denton
is one of eight such headquar-
A Growing Newspaper For A Growing Area
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DENTON,TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTEANOON,FEBRUARY 4; IMP
pull out the eight
to have survived,
yearold boy.
become afraid of showing tl
emotions, which to equally
effective. ‘.
realistically testing the emer-
gency preparations of the led-
oral government.
One after the other in rapid
succession, lights began to ap-
pear in homes over Denton.
A car parked in the drive-
• way at 2621 Woodhaven turn-
ed on its lights, backed into
the street and sped south to-
ward the TWU campus.
Week at Southern Methodist
University.
"The man who puts tears in
his voice when there is no
need for weeping to recognis-
ed for his insincerity and cuts
himself off from his congrega-
tion.” he said. Conversely, ho
added, many ministers have
They are the National Se-
curity Art of 191; the Federal
today are derived
from four statut
ments concerning <
mobilization.
Leaving
Dulles told
airliner-a type put into service
only a few weeks ago.
There also were some heart-
breaking other reminders of the
tragedy—such as a baby’s glove.
cob K. Javits (R-NY) said tody
that unless President Eisenhower
recommends federal action in the
whole field of civil rights, he will
move to expand the administra-
tion program.—
Eisenhower is exvected to send
to Congress in the next 10 days
proposals aimed at greater pro-
‘ events as floods and hurri-
canes is contained in Public
Law 875.
Prior to July 1, IMS. the
two agencies primarily respon-
aible for the \nation‘s non-mili-
gets a rest from MVC play.
Thursday night in a game
against Hardin-Simmons in the
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satisfactory program that
good chance of being passed
make some progress in arranging
a Big Four meeting with Russia
on Germany
- The secretary spoke with fe-
porters, after conferring with Pres-
ident Eisenhower at the White
House He gave the impression he
has in mind a conference some-
time between April 2-4, when the
Atlantic Pact powers meet in
Washington, and May 27, the
deadline set by the Soviet Union
for handing the East German
TV Log ...;.....
Women's News ,
Among thenmirsinga Plane Pas.
tab Zachary, producer of the Kuk-
in, Fran and Ollie television pro-
gram; and Richard Winn, direc-
tor of facility planning for Amer-
ican Airlines
TURBINE ENGINES
The new airliners were designed
ed by ________
to the President
WASHINGTON (AP —President
Eisenhower today called on Con-
gress to provide for higher taxes
in every spending bill which
would unbalance his 77-billion-dol-
lar budget.
Eisenhower told a news confer-
ence he to sure the public does not
want tax increases, deficit spend-
ing and cheapened dollars — and
his hood above water before bo
was rescued.
Swirling river currents, plus
rain and wind up to 40 mph.
hampered the search for other
bodies, and gave rise to fears that .
some of them might bo swept
miles out into Long Island Sound.
The site of the crash was
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HELMSTEDT, Went i Germany
CAP—An American and a Soviet
army officer conferred at this
frontier post today in an apparent
effort to settle the dispute that
has stranded an American mili-
tary convoy inside satellite East
Germany for two days
The unidentified Soviet officer
and an interpreter walked across
the West German border for a 10-
minute conference with the U.S.
Military Pilice captain in
of the American border
point. . 1 .
The Soviet officer then returned
to the Soviet post opposite at Mar-
ienborn. The American, who de-
clined to give his name to news-
men drove to a nearby headquar-
ters to report.
REMAINS PARKED
At the same time. Reorgan- *
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dress. in the water.
FATEFUL TVS
I was an irony of fate that the
tugboat happened to be near the
crash New York harbor tugs, or- ----------
dinarily scurrying busily up and
down the river, are now tied up
by a strike of crewmen.
The tug which raced to the roe- *
coo, however. Was not affected by
the tieup because it to based in a
said he was talking in terms of
missiles "deliverable on target”
The United States will have a
number of missiles ready on their
launching pads by December, he
told reporters. I is assumed the
Soviet Union will, to: But. the
secretary went on. "No one be
McElroy Says U.S. To Close
Missile Gap By Year’s End
parked at Marienborn,
sight of the free West.
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and conduct foreign relations:
other powers derived from his
position as Commander in
Chief, and. still other authority
from Congress in the form of .
statutory grants.
The vast and far-reching
powers of the U.S. Office of
Civil and Defense Mobilization
e will be 100 missiles
the full way.”
zount ours the same
by Congress. Kuchel has been a
consistent advocate of strong civil
rights action J
Although final decisions were
delayed by the President. he was
represented as giving serious con-
sideration to a series of recom-
way we do theirs"" for potential
misfires and strays, he said, and
on this basis. there win be no
practical difference by the end of
the year—"No more than one or
two missiles, based on our Juds
ment of accuracy and realiabil-
ity."
* McElroy told- the representa.
tives that taking into account all
the varied means the United
totes commands for delivernig a
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DENTON ANO VICINITY: Clear t partly
cloudy end mild through Thursday. luro-
wn? eloudy throve* Ihun
day. Warmer tonight; colder Panhend’e
Thursday.
(AST. SOUTH CENTRAL H4A$ Perily clouoy
through Thunday.
IN TODAY'S PAPER
TWO READERS express
eltheir views on Denton's pro-
posed city charter in Letters
to the Editor. Also on today's
editorial page: the last oi a
series on the financial plight
of higher education in Texas.
Page 4. ____
N.T.’S BASKETBALL team
vil and defense mobilisation
activities at the federal level
are contained in what are of-
ten called the "war powers”
of the federal government.
These include Constitutional
clauses giving the President
tire Office of the President.
Civil and Defense Mobiliza- $
tion. Region 5."
Exactly seven minutes had L
passed since the warning
sounded and OCDM’s South-
western beadquarters was in -
operation. In considerably less
than an hour later, the entire
office staff of 75 persons was
on duty and carrying out the
amergency funetions they
was an air raid alert, hypothe-
tically depicting enemy bomb-
ers already over Alaska but
Waving the arms, rubbing
the ears and picking at one’s
clothes were among manner-
isms criticised by the bishop.
"The use of meaningless man-
nerisms only causes people to
stop listening and start won-
dering what the fellow's doing
up there.” he said.
The bishop urged ministers to
plan and prepare their sermons
with care and not to use too
many big words.
"Any truth, no matter how
profound, can b epexressed in
simple words The teachings
of Jesus are perfect examples,
he said
NEW YORK (AP)—A glis-
tening new turboprop Am-
erican Airlines plane with 73
persons aboard plunged into
the chilling, fog-covered wat-
ers of the East River with a
shattering crash late Tuesday
night. Sixty-five apparently
perished, despite rescue ef-
forts by harbor craft.
The plane’s pilot, using instru-
menu because of the murky
weather conditions, was feeling
his way toward a runway at La
Guardia Airport on a nonstop
fight from Chicago
But for some undetermined rea-
son, the big four-engine turbo prop
craft smacked into the water and
burot apart about half a mile from •
would have actually performed
if the bombers had been real
and the nuclear war had be-
gun. The training exercise
here since early Monday after-
noon.
At daylight an officer from the
U.S. Army detachment at Helm-
stedt walked the MO yards to the
men ip Communist East Germany
and took them hot coffee and
breakfast.
GRAVE INCIDENT
- It was joined at the corner
by another car coming irom
the opposite direction, and
as it wheeled into a parking
lot at Brackenridge Hall, by
others from West Hickory -
Street, Sherman Drive, Cor-
erican,
versity officials were
more than the usual
late registrants — .
Francis W. Emerson, dean of Connecticut,
"It to vital that the Western
nations should understand each
other."
After two days of consultations
in London, Dulles plans to go on
to Paris and Bonn.
British Foreign Secretary Sel-
wyn Lloyd welcomd Dulles of the
airport.
Dulles planned to have a quick
talk wih U.S. Gen. Lauris Nor-
stad. the supreme commander of
North Atlantic Alliance forces in
Europe and then meet with Lloyd
and Prime Minister Macmillan.
British opinion favors a Change
in the Westerp approach which
would offer a demonstration of
Allied-flexibility. There to a strong
feeling here that any new Allied
proposal to unite Germany will
stand a better chance of breaking
the East-West deadock than the
often rejected demand for free all-
German elections.
Eisenhower emphasised And this
country's varied, balanced, and
widely dispersed security system
has brought the United States to
a splendid military posture which
is steadily improving, he added.
Eisenhower made it plain, when
talking of his intention to main-
tain a balanced budget if possible,
that he will carry his fight to the
grass roots of the" country at ev-
ery opportunity.
Conregsional eaders agreed.
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' It was 2:48 a.m and Denton
lay quietly sleeping ’
A lone car coasted around
the curve at the south end
of town, slowed at the Y Cafe
and then eased on down the ——. - .
ghratandfouf°North Em. on ■ side desk. The wamninz
The city was deserted
Suddenly a telephone rang
ana a green signal light be-
gan flashing insistently in a
mat room in a Bell Avenue
building. A duty officer pick-
ed up the phone and began
nl scribbling fapidly on the duly .
-f- log. The message came in
’ shiort. authorative tones:
"Checkerboard, checker
of 1958 transferred all the
65 Feared Dead After
LET'S PLAY TAG
The rules for this game or tag state that early birds get a better deal when it cornea
to buying 1959 car license plates—you avoid the rush if nothing more. Pat Brad-
ley, an NTSC coed from Tulia, shows off the black-on-white tags, now on sale in the
Courthouse office of tai assessor-collector O. N. (Newt) Seagraves. -
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Civil Defense Act of ISM; the
Defense Production Art of
1950; and the Strategic and
Critical Materials Stock Pil-
ing Art.
The President's authiority for
directing natural disaster ac-
His attack waa aimed chiefly at
a pending three - billion • dollar
housing bill and at Democrat-
ic proposals for federal airport
spending
The housing measure to $1,300-
000,000 above Eisenhower's budg-
et request, and the Democratic
airport aid proposal is 575 million
dol liars by comparison with 300
million asked by the President.
program would not include broad
authority for the attorney general
to seek injunctions against all
types of civil rights violations.
Such authority was asked by Ei-
senhower in 1057, but the Senate
cut the provision from the civil
rights bill Congress passed that
year
“if the President doesn't rec-
ommend this authority, I certain-
ly shall offer an amendment to
include it in the program,” Javits
said. "We should move forward
boldly in this field.”
However, Sen. Thomas Kuchel
of California, the assistant Repub-
lican leader, said that from what
North Dakota, Texas, Okla-
homa, New Mexico . . .”
they must have consideration for sank to the river bottom BUM'
their fellowmen if democracy to foot below.
to_work... _ . . T TUGBOAT TO RESCUE
BERLIN-This government baa a tugboat chugging along a few
protested to Moscow over the So-- hundred feet away cut loose two
viet batting ofanAmerisan truck bargee it was towing here from
convoy from Berlin near the East Connecticut and raced to the
German border. crash site. Crewmen leaped A
The United States regards this the water or used boat books
act as a violation of explicit or
DALLAS (AP)—Why do some
people fall asleep in church*
Well. a Methodist bishop blam-
es the preachers
Bishop William C. Martin,
resident Methodist bishop for
the Dallas-Fort Worth area,
lashed at whining voices, in-
flated vocabularies and a vari-
ety of other pulpit sins
“People do not stop listening
to a preacher deliberately or
spitefully," insisted the bish-
op "After-all. they bother
coming to church because they
want to hear. They stop when
something raises a barrier be-
tween them and the minister ”
The bishop spoke Tuesday to
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he-
ered the convoy stoppage the
gravest incident since Moscow
began its drive last 'November to
shout I MM attending Minister’ L,E=
TWU Enrolls
Communists eontrol of Allied sup- The four-truck convoy remained
ply lines to West Berlin."i"
tzotimonFmTusadacesbcommitthe he said, was put under no money
MISSILES—The claims by So-
viet Defense Minister R. Y. Mal-
inovsky that the West lacks the
missile might to cope with new
Soviet weapons of pinpoint ac-
curacy sound very much like
propaganda, Eisenhower said.
DISMISSES BOASTS
Why. he asked, shou Amer-
cans pay more heed to such boast-
ing of new weapons than to Soviet
Haims of having invented the fly-
ing machine, the auto and the
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LONDON (AP) — Secre-
I tary of State John Foster Dul-
les flew in from Washington
today for talks'with Allied
leaders on Western policy in
Germany and elsewhere in
Europe.
; "I have brought no new pro-,
posals," he told reporters at the
8 airport.
"I have come here because I
Since the constitution and
various other statutes already
gave the President several
other non-miliary defense ------------
sponsibilities, the result of the
reorganization was to place
under him the responsibility
for an civil and defansa aaobdk g «
zation functions of the federal
government.
A member of the tug’s crew
said the sights and sounds were
something nevef to be forgotten.
"There seemied to be bodies all
around, and there were continual
screams for help," he said.
AH through the night and Into
a doleful gray, rainy dawn a huge
array of boats searched the river .
for bodies. By midmorning only 19
still missing The eight survivors
were in hospitals.
MOTHER DIES
P. Rogers and Secretary of Wel-
fare Arthur S. Flemming.
One of these was reported to call
for a change in the laws on ob-
structing justice to make it a
crime to interfere, or show intent
to interfere with the carrying out
of a federal court order.
This was obviously aimed at
ringleaders who foment disorder
in school Integration cases.
The attorney general would be
given broad powers to protect
minority voting rights under other
proposals One of these would
permit him to ask a federal
judge’s permission to fife a fed-
eral action where fear of reprisal
wax keeping individuals from
bringing suits in their own name.
Another would permit’the attor-
ney general to inspect the records
of registrars and others in voting
rights cases. This would provide
also that such books must not be
destroyed within a specified pe-
riod of time, probably three years.
Flemming was reported to have
recommended authority for the
construction of schools both on
and off military basis in areas
where public classrooms have
been closed by state or local ac-
tion to avoid integration.
and German cars and trucks also
went to and from West Berlin.
Reporters. cameramen, and
television crews jammed into the
little West German border town
of West Helmstedt.
The Army convoy—consisting of
the four 2%-ton trucks loaded with
Jeeps, four GI drivers and a cor-
poral in charge cleared the West
Berlin border en route to West
Germany without incident Mon-
day morning
RIGHTS ACTION BY IKE
Eisenhower touched on these
other matters in the course of the
news conference:
- INTEGRATION—He applauded
Virginia officials and citizens for
this week’s reopening of public
schools in Norfolk and Arlington
Couniy with Negro and white chil-
dren studying together for the
first time in the state's history. . .______
UNDERSTANDING* the shore end of the runway.
- This, said the President, may j Some of the passengers and
be taken as evidence that Amari- crow were flung from, or floated
admissions-registrar, said many
students who had gone home be-
tween semesters had been caught
in ice and snow storms in the Mid-
west and in Wert Texas.
The 1,985 figure was an increase
of 156 students over the same day
last spring Students have an-
other week to enroll for a full load
at TWU even though classes start-
ed today. —
The spring semester enrollment
compares with 1,345 registered af-
tor the same two-day enrollment
time last September. Spring se-
lasted through 4:30 p.m. the
followihg day. •
x-p-s, qgp.g----------The simulated air raid was.
del EolvarEoherts not the first the Southwestera
FPThendgninderthe"tontdoor headquariers has receiyed,
of the building said "Execu-
make an issue over
cargoes of loaded
vehicles driven by
ten across the nation, each
responsible for a specific geo-
graphical area. Located on
the TWU campus, it is equip-
ped with emergency communi-
cations equipment which ean ‘
reach every state capital.
every other regionat office and'
the national headquarters of
OCDM in less than two min-
ules" time.
The regional staff include*
various specialisis in the fields
of emergency government
planning, transportation. L en-
gineering. health, welfare, ed-
ucation. training radilogical
ri a> loans? s» matanralamv. ganp!y, __*
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manpower, emergency inlor-
illation, distribution, finance
and other areas
" President Eisenhower’s re-
sponsibiliy lor conducting ci-
ac—-=gzsmufen
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Denton Record-Chronicle
imlied agreements among the
four powers occupying Berlin. Ei-
senhower said
' smaidhtunssamreemasa"
PRICE FIVE CENTS ~
the haThsmotppund the rescued boy
Tabtmricsesomeraltator"fore; afi but dedan
• tection of minority voting rights
and at curbing disorders in school
integration cases.
As outlined at a White House
■ conference of GOP legislative
leaders Tuesday, however, the
McElroy defended U S intelli-
gence agencies against any sug-
gestion that their findings might
have been tailored to a program
favored by the administration.
Any such distortion, he told the
committee would rteolroy the con-
fidence of the American people
and then we are through."
Maj Gen. Bernard Schriever,
the Air Force ballistic missile
chief, also expressed personal
confidence in the state of the na-
tion's defense—both in strikeback
eM defense power.
In temperature several degree*
below freezing, five American Ml-
diers spen a second uncomfort-
able night wrapped in blankets in
four trucks parked alongside the
autobahn They had been stranded
WASHINGTON (AP) - Any in-
tercontinental m i s s i l e gap be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
United States won't be bigger than
MS or two effective weapons by
years end. Secretary of Delense
MH H. McElroy said today.
McElroy, elaborating on his
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Ike Asks Higher Taxes
To Combat Spending
to combine tot power with the ad-
vantage of the propeller. The en-
lines operate on the turbine
principle.
The liner was easing toward La
Guardia through light rain and
fog. in 38-degree weather with the
ceiling about 300 to 400 feet. J
Ready
To Talk Plane Dives Into River
decretary UI late
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Jrra YEAR (>F BAJOLY m NO.
would stand against excessive
spending if the cost thus was
made clear in spending bills.
In obvious warning that he plans
through appeals to the public to
bat down—if be can—every high-
spending proposal that Congress
brings. Eisehower said grimly:
He means this and he will say it
often.
mist the Western powers from
West Berlin. .. ____.
The United States repeatedly
protested to Soviet army head-
quarters that the action was a
breach of the Soviet Union’s guar-
antee of free access to the city,
given at the end of the IMS-45
blockade
But there was no indication the
Soviets would back down or that
the United States would recall the
trucks to West Berlin, as the
Soviet border guards suggested.
“The Russians have said oify that
they will take the matter under
consideration." a U. S Army
spokesman reported,
PRIVATE TRAFFIC
Private traffic along the auto-
bahn continued uneventfully. No
Allied military convoys were
scheduled, but an empty - U.S.
Army trailer truck passed without
delay through the Soviet check-
point early today en route to Ber-
lin. This indicated the Soviets only
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